WISE Events

Summary

An Event (added in WISE5.0) stores user's interactions with WISE like entering/exiting nodes, opening/closing the NoteBook, and events triggered in embedded simulations. Together with ComponentState, it provides a detailed account of what the student did in WISE.

An Event has a Category, Event, and Data. Examples of (Category, Event, Data) for are: ("Navigation", "stepEntered", "{nodeId:node4,time:123}"), ("UserInteraction", "runButtonClicked", "{time:145,numLivesLeft:3}")

Schema Definition

create table events (
    id integer not null auto_increment,
    category varchar(255) not null,
    clientSaveTime datetime not null,
    componentId varchar(30),
    componentType varchar(30),
    context varchar(30) not null,
    data text,
    event varchar(255) not null,
    nodeId varchar(30),
    serverSaveTime datetime not null,
    periodId bigint not null,
    runId bigint not null,
    workgroupId bigint not null,
    primary key (id)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

• id: unique id of this Event
• category: category of this Event, can be specified by emitter of the event. E.g. "Navigation", "Simulation"
• clientSaveTime: client timestamp when this Event occurred
• componentId: id of the component this Event is for
• componentType: type of the component this Event is for. e.g. "OpenResponse", "Draw"
• context: which context this Event is in, e.g. "VLE", "Component"
• data: extra data to save along with this Event
• nodeId: id of the node this Event is for
• serverSaveTime: server timestamp when this Event was saved in db
• periodId: id of the period that this Event was created for (id of period of workgroup who created this Event)
• runId: id of the run that this Event was created for (id of run of workgroup who created this Event)
• workgroupId: id of the workgroup that created this Event

Authoring Tool Events

Here are the events that are saved when an author uses the Authoring Tool.

Event Name	Description
projectOpened	the author has opened a project in the Authoring Tool
projectHomeViewed	the author has viewed the project home where it shows all the steps
assetsViewed	the author has viewed the assets page
projectInfoViewed	the author has viewed the project info page
projectListViewed	the author has viewed their list of projects
projectPreviewed	the author has previewed the project
activityCreated	the author has created an activity
activityMoved	the author has moved an activity
activityCopied	the author has copied an activity
activityDeleted	the author has deleted an activity
stepCreated	the author has created a step
stepImported	the author has imported a step
stepMoved	the author has moved a step
stepCopied	the author has copied a step
stepDeleted	the author has deleted a step
stepViewed	the author has opened a step
stepPreviewed	the author has previewed a step
componentCreated	the author has created a component
componentImported	the author has imported a component
componentMoved	the author has moved a component
componentCopied	the author has copied a component
componentDeleted	the author has deleted a component
gotToTeacherHome	the author has gone to the Teacher Home page
logOut	the author has logged out of WISE